Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the
world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater,
Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish
this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages
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April 5th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mystery
for April 5th is Joyful.
We urgently, urgently need
funds and volunteers for
the priestly mailing!
Please help us!
Come to Florida on
April 5, 2003
for the live rosary
Rosary on the 5th on the
Shepherds of Christ Radio
6:20 a priest is discerning.
PALM SUNDAY
Rosary on April 13th -
Sunday - China, Indiana
Come to China
Mass Saturday April 12 - 12:00 noon
exposed Eucharist until
April 14 - 12:00 noon
praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
Here is the schedule for our web radio
April 5, 2003.4:00 a.m. - Mass
4:37 a.m. - October 13, 1996 Live Rosary
- Songs from Jesus6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Tell My People
read by Father Carter8:55 a.m. - Newsletter 1999 Issue 4
read by Father Carter10:23 a.m. - Choose Life
11:25 a.m. - Grace by Father Carter
read by Father Mike Paraniuk12:33 p.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
from the Mass Book1:45 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 1
read by Father Carter3:05 p.m. - Rosary of Light from November 15, 2002
led by Rita Ring4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading
- Songs from Jesus
6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 p.m. - Tell My People
read by Father Carter8:55 p.m. - Love Songs and Messages
October 1, 19949:59 p.m. - Spirituality Handbook
read by Father Carter11:33 p.m. - Mary's Message
12:30 a.m. - November 13, 1996 Live Rosary
1:50 a.m. - Messages from December 12, 2002
feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe2:37 a.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
from the Mass Book3:50 a.m. - Songs from Jesus
4:00 a.m. - Mass
From Today's Readings at Mass
Wisdom 2:1, 12-22
Error of the godlessAnd this is the false argument they use,
‘Our life is short and dreary,
there is no remedy when our end comes,
no one is known to have come back from Hades.Let us lay traps for the upright man, since he annoys us
and opposes our way of life,
reproaches us for our sins against the Law,
and accuses us of sins against our upbringing.
He claims to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child of the Lord.
We see him as a reproof to our way of thinking,
the very sight of him weighs our spirits down;
for his kind of life is not like other people’s,
and his ways are quite different.
In his opinion we are counterfeit;
he avoids our ways as he would filth;
he proclaims the final end of the upright as blessed
and boasts of having God for his father.
Let us see if what he says is true,
and test him to see what sort of end he will have.
For if the upright man is God’s son, God will help him
and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies.
Let us test him with cruelty and with torture,
and thus explore this gentleness of his
and put his patience to the test.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death
since God will rescue him—or so he claims.’
This is the way they reason, but they are misled,
since their malice
makes them blind.
They do not know the hidden things of God,
they do not hope for the reward of holiness,
they do not believe in a reward
for blameless souls.
Psalm 34: 17-22
Zade
Qoph
Yahweh is near to the broken–hearted,
he helps those whose spirit is crushed.
Resh
Though hardships without number beset the upright,
Yahweh brings rescue from them all.
Shin
Yahweh takes care of all their bones,
not one of them will be broken.
Taw
But to the wicked evil brings death,
those who hate the upright will pay the penalty.
Yahweh ransoms
the lives of those who serve him,
and there will be no penalty for those who
take refuge in him.
John 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30
After this Jesus travelled round Galilee; he could not travel round Judaea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
As the Jewish feast of Shelters drew near,
However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went up as well, not publicly but secretly.
The people discuss the origin of the Messiah
Meanwhile some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Isn’t this the man they want to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, and they have nothing to say to him! Can it be true the authorities have recognised that he is the Christ? Yet we all know where he comes from, but when the Christ appears no one will know where he comes from.’
Then, as Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he cried out:
You know me
and you know
where I came from.
Yet I have not come of my own accord:
but he who sent me is
true;
You do not know him,
but I know him
because I have my being
from him
and it was he who sent me.
They wanted to arrest him then, but because his hour had not yet come no one laid a hand on him.
April 4, 2003 - FIRST FRIDAY 4th FRIDAY of lent - around 5:00 a.m.
Jesus speaks: I carried My cross to the top of the hill
I did it for you
Friday to Sunday
12:00 Noon
Oh your 3 day journey will be one I have fixed
for you, filled with sacrifices and love
Would you give what I ask or are you always
holding back.
I held nothing back, I gave My all, I sweat
Blood in the garden for My precious souls.
This Friday to Sunday I ask you to give
yourselves.
I ask for this special prayer on the 5th.
You want it your way.
You do not know real suffering for the souls.
You know what you are willing to let go of.
Oh lights of heaven shine in the dark, dark
corners of this world where satan has
filled with hatred and darkness.
And My prayers are a light to the nation.
A picture I give to you.
old seminary
Jesus speaks:
A picture of the old seminary, the corner
fell neatly off in minutes. The rumbling
boom one to shake the floor and knock
the wax from your ears, but did it?
Mark 12: 10-11
Have you not read this text of scripture:
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this is the Lord’s doing,
and we marvel at it ?’
Jesus speaks:
Oh senseless men you deal with God. A
little man one who wants to control.
My Mother appeared over 500 times in a
place she was rejected, you moved the
statue like a book case in your office,
you fought My plan, I was patient,
loving, writing My letters to you in
the Blue Books, giving you Fr. Carter,
a man who studied all those years to
write My Priestly Newsletter, a doctorate
in theology, one chosen by Me. You chase My
prophets I send, you ignore the signs
you block the plan (YOU THINK YOU CAN
MAKE UP A PLAN, FOOLISH)
The world and the Church bleeds
Your focus is on your own self-promotion
The plan one of a man, I sent My
Prayer Chapters in 1995 you took them
out, said the Lady can't appear here
anymore, one man, you fight God.
I write My Prayer Manual, Fr. Carter
said, the Prayers were given by Jesus
Christ, called Shepherds of Christ
not one letter will be changed, you
must leave under obedience, we will
not pray the prayers where they are
demanding we remove certain prayer
given by Jesus. Rita under obedience I
deliver this message to you, you are to
pray at Holy Cross-Immaculata, it is
a message God has given to me.
Messenger:
With the sorrow of leaving that place where
Mary had appeared to me daily because of a
phone call I received September 11, 1995 from
the head of the lay discernment board,
I left as I was directed by my spiritual
director Fr. Carter.
Soon Mary began appearing on the 5ths
at Holy Cross-Immaculata and I received
extraordinary ecstasies concerning the Mass
and was told to compile this book and publish
it immediately.
Messenger:
Fr. Carter could not have it discerned by the
deadline of his birthday January 15, 1996 and
soon the struggle began with the Imprimatur
on this book. All messages from Jesus were
de-messagetized to get the Imprimatur
the visions and experiences "watered down"
so possibly I could receive the Imprimatur
as God told us to do. Two years later we got it.
In early 1996 January, Our Lord appeared
4 times transfigured at the front of Holy Cross -
Immaculata Church.
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
It was like up a mountain top. Above
the city a statue of the Virgin Mary stands
on a top of the Church.
After monthly visits from Mary on the
5th of each month in the Lourdes - Grotto
Jesus appeared December 5, 1996 at the point
of death on the cross. It was horrifying
for me. (This was 12 days before Mary appeared
on the building in Clearwater, Florida.)
Excerpt from April 4, 2003
Messenger: I saw Him at the point of death on the cross December 5, 1996, after Mary appeared 500 times.
He hung, all battered, greatly weakened. His mouth moved very clearly. It seems that a man in His condition could not move His mouth to that extent.
Later in the rosary that night, He gave messages and said: "No one was listening."
end of excerpt
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
Oh depth I know and so I can write to
you of the depth of knowing some of
the intense suffering of Jesus to sweat
Blood in the garden, seeing all the sins
of all time and after all He did so
the souls would be saved, they rejected Him
for this world, they continued sinning and
He saw before Him many of His precious
souls going to hell. He knew them by
name, He loved them deeply, He gave
His life for these precious souls.
Oh the agony of the heart to give and give,
to deliver the message over years and be
ignored. Since 1991 I received messages almost
every day. When they did not believe me while
Mary appeared daily and even moved the
statue she appeared in, afterwards, Mary
appeared in Florida 1996 as the rainbow
you would think they would be grateful
for such a gift from the Divine God
to the men of the earth.
But agonies of agonies, the Divine
God sweat His Blood for His precious
souls and today it is legal to kill an unborn
baby.
Men on the frontline, precious lives you
say and indeed my deep love for every
person has troubled me to tears because of the
loss of young men's lives
but
The precious loss of the souls
The killing of babies in the womb
The poison being fed to the young
and all people
The secular Sundays
You know we have to obey God
He is All Powerful and Almighty
He is above us
He is Divine
We are human creatures created
by God
Oh can you not see the seasons come and
go and watch the changing of our own
bodies as we begin, soft little babies
and many of us end up with wrinkled
old bodies.
Do we see the withering of the fruit
on the vine and the leaves that flower
and fade and fall from the trees as
rubble.
Our souls can go to heaven forever
and ever. Oh eternal life.
Life to be embraced by the Divine God.
To be possessed by my beloved God.
I want this so bad at the consecration
of the Mass and after Holy Communion.
I long for this depth of union with God.
Completeness in God (in heaven).
My life is lived for this
TO HAVE the fullness of LIFE IN HIM (in heaven).
Oh my Creator
time marches on in "petty - pace"
My heart is ablaze to be someday
wrapped in Thee for all eternity.
I see with a wider vision He has
imparted to me as His messenger
and I reach always for this
completeness in Him.
My thirst here below is only quenched
by Him, my joy in sharing
life deeply with those who
know Him.
A depth of my soul I can never express
on this paper
My sorrow to not do more to deliver
the message of His love and
the gift of our Church.
Oh I thirst after Jesus in the Eucharist
I want to tell children what I know
I write rosary meditations of instruction
from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for
children and men all alike.
The rosary, the Mass, the priests,
the gifts God gives us
the sacraments
Oh His precious grace
I know He went to the cross, but he made
that long journey on the hill to
Calvary,
He has asked us to journey to the 5th
in Florida.
It is the 8th anniversary when
Mary asked for public prayer meetings
on the 5th of each month beginning
April 5, 1995.
Excerpt from March 30, 1995 Rosary
Mary: I call you to come on the fifth of April and pray the rosary here in this room.Mary: Bring with you all that will pray, for sufferings are at hand. You will suffer such immense sufferings. You need to pray! Pray the rosary! Tell all to come and be with me in this room to pray the rosary!
end of excerpt
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Here is a picture we took in Florida
April 5, 2001
April 5, 2001
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Father Carter left and then we began seeing
the image of Jesus in the window
February 5, 2001.
I took this picture myself after the
monthly prayer service.
February 5, 2001
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
To some who receive extraordinary gifts,
it can become ordinary
never to me
Everyday I can look at the web-site
on Shepherds of Christ homepage and
see Mary's image live. She appears
everyday for the world.
Even when Jesus performed miracles
some wanted to kill him (Isn't that
foolish, the Son of God)
Today He delivers this message to
the earth. After Mary appeared daily
for 14 months we were kicked out of
Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center 3 times.
On August 14, 1999 3:00AM I was in Boston
with my family and Mary delivered this
message to me,
August 14, 1999 - Vigil of the Assumption
From Mary delivered at 3:00 a.m., awakened at 2:00 a.m.
Mary speaks: I appeared at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center daily. I ask this day that a prayer meeting as directed by my Son be held daily at 6:20 p.m. before the Sorrowful Mother statue, if possible, and the exposed Eucharist, if possible. It will go as follows, the format being that given in the February 23, 1999, message from Jesus.
I wish the main prayers of the Novena to the Holy Spirit to be prayed as directed by my Son, followed by the Shepherds of Christ prayers and the rosary. I wish my messenger or any person of Shepherds of Christ to lead this prayer service. I wish the freedom for the messenger to be there. I wish a worthy-standing apostle in the Shepherds of Christ to lead the prayers. This is my request. I am Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Clearwater, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Sorrows - Our Lady of the Holy Spirit. This is my Center, this is my request. I cannot tell you the importance of this message to the plan of the Father. Because of willfulness it has been blocked. Because of the workings of Satan, it has been blocked. I am Our Lady of Light. I appeared there daily from July 5, 1994 - September 5, 1995. I ask for this: a simple prayer meeting to comply with the format set by Jesus, February 23, 1999. I am Our Lady of the Rosary. I wish this to be begun immediately. You will pray as I have instructed because you love me. I am Our Lady of the Holy Spirit. For this prayer meeting the Holy Spirit Prayers to be recited are those given by my Son.
I am Our Lady of the Holy Spirit. This is my Center. You will listen if you love me and Him. I am Our Lady of the Holy Spirit. I am Mary your Mother, Queen of Peace.
Special graces are given for healing (especially spiritual healing) wherever and whenever these prayers are prayed at 6:20 p.m. Tuesday.
I wish the youth to come on Sunday (and on Thursday at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center) at all places where the prayers are recited. These prayers can be recited in about one hour or less. I am Mary, please answer my request.
end of August 14, 1999 message
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
The priest had a problem blacking
out only hours before. I did not
know that.
When I went to him and told him what
Mary said we were allowed to do
the 6:20 prayers there daily since
August 15, 1999. All were united, at Mary's
Image site, China, Iowa, etc
We have done them for almost 4 years daily there (at the Holy Spirit Center)
as Jesus and Mary asked for.
Fr. Carter died after the 6:20 prayer
tape of him praying the prayers ended
on December 18, 2000 one day after the
4th anniversary of Mary's image
in Florida.
Oh I remember this message I
received the morning Falmouth Flooded
and I didn't know it had flooded.
March 3, 1997 Message
Day Falmouth Flooded Early Morning
Jesus speaks: Oh, the waters will run and the earth will shake and you will suffer and suffer and work your own plan and say it happened before, it is not a sign from God - it is a phenomenon, a happening, no reason to take notice.
And I will shake you on your tree and you will fall to the ground as rotten fruit and all that will remain will be the fruit of heaven.
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
The corner of the old seminary fell
off March 22, 1994, Lucia's birthday
the main Fatima visionary. The focus
at the Marian place (Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center)
was on Mary, I came in
with the messages of God's Blue Book
about the tabernacle, sweet messages
from Jesus no one there was sitting
before the tabernacle, on Friday
nights during the prayer meetings in
lent with 400 people there I told the
priest Jesus wanted to be in the tabernacle,
the tabernacle door was left wide open
on the main altar all through the
prayer service.
I received a message about the 12:00 noon
First Saturday Mass, it was done a little while
then it changed. Now there is one at
10:00. Mary asked for a First Saturday
noon Mass.
The messages I received there were
ignored, Mary's daily visits for 14
months and we were kicked out three
times and invited back twice.
Fr. Carter pulled out again
and again because of their
trouble with the prayers.
There was so much time wasted
Fr. Carter would say dealing with
the things satan was stirring up
it effected our ability to circulate
the Priestly Newsletter around the
world and begin prayer chapters as
Jesus wanted him to do.
Fr. Carter said we had to focus on the
whole world, not that little place.
Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius
~ July 31, 1994 ~
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter
~ October 13, 1994 ~
The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ
"I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:
'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...
'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.
'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'
- From In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Newsletter of Shepherds of Christ Associates
by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., Volume 1, No. 1, 1995. p. 2.
end of October 13, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
My dear fellow Associate Members,
Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:
My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.
These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.
I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.
I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.
I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.
This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:
- For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
- For the Pope.
- For all bishops of the world.
- For all priests.
- For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
- For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
- For all members of the Catholic Church.
- For all members of the human family.
- For all souls in purgatory.
end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message
from Tell My People
Jesus speaks: "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.
"After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"
end of excerpt from Tell My People
April 4, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
On one of our return visits to the Holy Spirit
Center here is a talk Fr. Carter gave February 13, 1997
in front of about 600 people. He celebrated
Mass. Later he led the rosary and
here are the messages I received.
February 13, 1997
Talk given by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Founder of Shepherds of Christ MinistriesTalk given February 13, 1997 National Conference of Shepherds of Christ, held at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, Norwood, Ohio.
Before we begin the rosary, I’d like to say a few words about the great importance of these days on the 13th of each month. Before Our Lord asked me to begin the Shepherds of Christ Ministries, the 1st dimension of that ministries was given to me on May the 31st, 1994. But before Our Lord asked me to start the ministries, I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. And I knew that everything concerning recent Marian apparitions centered around the Fatima message. The Fatima message is key to the peace of the world, as Our Lady of Fatima has told us. So because I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, it was no surprise to me when Our Lord told me, and through me the whole Movement, the great connection that there would be between Shepherds of Christ Ministries and helping to bring the Fatima message to conclusion. I’ll expand more upon that in my talk this afternoon. But here and now I’d like to read just a part of the message I received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Ministries into existence. It had begun May 31st , some five or six months previous to that. But really October the 13th, 1994, marks the real birth, the complete birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. And part of the message I received on that day reads as follows:
"I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Reign of My Sacred Heart. Today then, October the 13th, 1994, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, the Chief Shepherd of the Flock."
The calling of Our Lord to Shepherds of Christ to be present if possible at these meetings on the 13th of each month, and if they cannot be present physically, to be present in spirit with us then comes as no surprise. It’s merely another unfolding in the history of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and in the Fatima message.
These 13th of the months meetings are extremely important. They are great instruments which Our Lord and Our Lady are using to help bring to completion the Fatima message, which will result in that great era of peace, which Our Lady of Fatima promised eventually would come to the world.
So I ask you to take these meetings on the 13th of the month with the utmost seriousness, gratitude, thanksgiving, joy that Our Lord, for His own reasons has chosen Shepherds of Christ, the members thereof, the whole Ministries to play such a great part in the completion of the Fatima message. It comes as no surprise either that Our Lord gives special messages during the rosary on the meeting of the 13th, just as Our Lady of Fatima gave messages to the three visionaries at Fatima in 1917, from May through October. So at this stage of the Fatima message’s unfolding, it is no surprise that they continue, and in a new way and a new phase of the Fatima plan, give us these very special messages on the 13th. They are meant not only for us here present, they are meant for all members of the Movement, and eventually for the whole world. All these messages, all these rosaries on the 13th, eventually go onto our Internet with its world-wide audience.
So please, be very grateful to God for the messages He gives us during the rosary. Not everything which Rita says is a message. I think you’ll be able to distinguish when she’s receiving a message from Our Lord or from Our Lady, and when she is speaking from her own heart. Sometimes the transition is very quick and you may miss it, but there are both ways in which meditations are given on the decades: in strict locutions or messages, and then from Rita’s meditations or reflections herself.
(After the Rosary)
I wish to thank everybody who made the effort to be here with us, especially those people who had to travel from out of town. I’m sure the Lord has blessed you already and will continue to do so for your effort to be here. These are extremely important meetings on the 13th of the month. Our Lord has, Himself, instructed us in His great love and mercy for us and the whole world to have them. From these meetings, the messages of Our Lord, the previous message given at Fatima, go out to the whole world...
I sort of left off when I introduced the rosary by reading the rest, or at least a good part of the rest, of that message which I, myself, received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Shepherds of Christ Ministries into existence.
"My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission."
He had already asked me on May the 31st of 1994 to start the priestly newsletter and then shortly after that to start the prayer chapters.
"I’m asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...
"I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.
"Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."
So (this is) one of the most important messages given in the whole history of our Movement, and I think you can see why. Not only was Our Lord calling the Ministries into full bloom with this message, but He was making that great connection between Shepherds of Christ and the Fatima message.
You see how He says that both the Fatima message and Shepherds of Christ is centered in devotion, and especially in consecration, to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
So in my moments here before you this afternoon, I wish to speak a bit about this consecration.
I’ll start off by reading a message of Our Lord and from "Tell My People" which deals with this consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
"My beloved friend, tell My people that I desire all to consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Tell them not to just recite words in making the Act of Consecration, but to realize what they are saying. Consecration to Our Hearts means a total gift of self. That means handing over everything to Me and My Mother. Consecration means a willingness to surrender completely to Me. In Baptism, one is consecrated to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But how many fail to live out their consecration? I extend to all the invitation to renew this Baptismal consecration through consecration to My Heart and to My Mother’s Heart.
"My beloved companion, I have taught you what this consecration means. I have given you great peace, joy and happiness because you have made this consecration. I have taught you that you are to renew this act of consecration each day. I constantly remind you that you are to pray each day for the grace to more and more live the consecration. I have taught you that your consecration to Me and My Mother means that you constantly surrender yourself to Us and to Our care. I have taught you that the more you surrender yourself to Me, the more I live in you, and through you and for you. I have taught you that My great love for you longs to draw you more deeply into My Heart. I have shown you that I wish your Mother Mary to place you there within My Heart, and that the more you dwell within her Heart, the more deeply she places you within My Heart. Dwelling within Our Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions you more and more in My likeness. The Father thus looks upon you with greater favor and takes you more closely to Himself.
"Tell My people all these wondrous truths. I am Lord and Master and I desire all to listen to My words. (end of message)"
And what beautiful words those are, which Christ gives all, to us all regarding the consecration to His Heart and Mary’s Heart.
I want to - after that message of Jesus telling us what consecration involves, I wish to single out a few aspects of the consecration, what it includes. One aspect of our consecration and especially the consecration which Our Lord has given us for Shepherds of Christ, one aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to realize that we are apostles and that we are called to go out into the world as we have heard in the rosary today, and other times to be the apostles of His love, of His love and His Mother’s love, and thus to help bring about that great era of peace promised by Our Lord, Our Lady of Fatima in which love will just dominate. That’s what it means when Our Lady says, "In the end," she says, "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And along with that triumph of her Immaculate Heart will occur the Reign of the Sacred Heart. The Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart simply is a reign of love, a triumph of love and in that era there will be a type of love existent in the hearts of the members of the human family never known before. We will all be so united in love to the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And not only with Them, but with each other. What a glorious era we have to look forward to.
We are apostles. More and more as the Movement has gone on, Jesus is letting us know that, yes, we are supposed to pray. This is one of our primary duties in the chapters and elsewhere, to pray for priests and all others. But more and more He is telling us that now is the time to start to more and more move out from our chapters and to be apostles of His love, to help spread the Movement, to help spread the consecrations in the schools through the consecration cards, the Rosary Aves, both of which have the Imprimatur of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, to help spread all our materials, all our books and all the various rosaries, the rosary tapes. And you are called to do that.
In the beginning of the Movement, it was a relatively few people who were carrying the burden and carrying the Ministry on. We have entered a great new episode of the Movement, principally in that episode, principally centers itself around these meetings of the 13th. More and more people are realizing as they hear more and more the messages, more and more people in the Movement are hearing that Jesus is calling each one of us to be apostles of the Movement, to spread the Movement, to help implement the various ministries in all ways possible, to help spread the movement by starting new prayer chapters. Just think if we have something like, I guess, 2500-3000 members in the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement here in this country and throughout the world-most of those, thus far, in this country.
But just think if each person would take it upon himself or herself to go all out to get one more new chapter formed. That’s not impossible, I don’t think that’s asking something heroic. That would double our chapters; that would double our prayer power. And so much of the Movement, the success of it, depends upon the prayer power coming out of the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement. So He’s calling all of us; and how admirably so many in the Movement are answering. I wish to single out-just because all of you know about the Florida apparition-four or five, six, I don’t know how many now of our members from Rita’s core group have gone down to the apparition site. One of our main members, Tom A., has a home there at St. Petersburg, and Clearwater is just a short distance from there. And they’ve been going down and staying in his house, and each day going over to the apparition site and handing out our materials, especially the rosary message tape, but other materials also. This is what Our Lord, Our Lady has asked us to do. And they’ve had phenomenal success. We can’t keep enough materials down there. They just, the people are just so eager for it. But this is what. . .and they do it on their own time, they drive down, some of them spend three or four days, some a week and they come back. But what a marvelous example of their answering the call to the apostleship to which Jesus calls them in the Movement. And they’re doing just a tremendous amount of good.
And by the way when I’m talking and as long as I’m talking about Florida I might read you part of that message of Our Lady. You have read it, no doubt if you’d gotten a copy of the picture with the message on the back. But for my own purposes I want to read that here and now. So Mary tells us, this is the message which Rita received on December the 19th:
Mary speaks: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn’. He is the Almighty God the Light of the world.
I appear to you, my children on a bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus for your money. Your money is your god.
I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you.
When Rita got that message and when she gave it to me, both of us for a number of days thought that her number of apparitions was simply decreasing, but we both came to the conclusion; well Rita came to the conclusion and I followed after her, in agreement with her conclusion, Mary says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She was saying apparently that, "I’m appearing to you in this new way, where the whole world can see me."
So many others’ apparition sites have had their believers of course, but many, many people throughout the world have doubted all this talk about the various apparition sites of Mary. She says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She is appearing on a bank for the whole world to see.
Mary continues:
"I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now."
That’s one of the main things our apostles down in Florida are doing, handing out the tapes with this message.
Mary continues:
"Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book."
She’s referring to a book which Shepherds of Christ Publications came out right around Christmas time. Hopefully all of you have received it in the mail, Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as given to Rita. Now here’s the point I want to make here and now. Notice how she links up the apparition site with the circulation of her Rosary Book, and we are circulating the book there. But to me, there’s a very great phenomenon connected with the colors on the window, bank windows and the Rosary Book. And Rita herself pointed this out to me. Now this cover on this book-it was designed by Hal K. weeks and even months before the apparition of Our Lady on the bank in Florida. When did you start to design that Hal? (question asked to Harold K.) Almost, two years ago. And the colors were already selected months ago, right? Well if you’ll take the picture of the bank of the apparition of the bank on Florida, and this Rosary Book, you will notice that the colors are the same. To me, that’s a miraculous confirmation of the fact that Our Lady is connecting the apparition site on the bank in Florida with the Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a special way with the rosaries. It’s just phenomenal. You can check the colors out one by one. They’re a little bit brighter on the book, but because of the photography involved I think you can see how they wouldn’t be quite as bright on this. But check out the colors. They’re the same on the Rosary Book and on this. And these colors, as I say, were picked by Hal months and months before the apparition. You can take it for what you want, but for me it’s a miraculous confirmation of this message, that Our Lady chose those same colors which are on the front of her Rosary Book, to show the same colors relative to her apparition there on the bank in Florida.
Therefore, our Florida apostles are one of the many examples I could point out to you of how people in the Movement are more and more taking up the challenge, the invitation of Jesus and Mary to spread this Movement throughout the world. They have chosen the Shepherds of Christ Movement as a great instrument to help bring about the Fatima message. How privileged we are to be part of it, to be called to it. I believe, I’ve told you this before, at least some of you have heard me, I think this Movement is one of the greatest in the history of the Church. And I think history itself will bear that out. So how precious a gift each of us has been given by Our Lord in calling us to be members of this Movement.
Therefore, a very important aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to be apostles, to help spread all the ministries. Another aspect of our consecration is the idea of union. I think we’re all very well aware how the consecration unites us to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and through Them to the Father and the Holy Spirit. But perhaps we don’t think often enough of that how it unites us with one another, in the Movement, in the Church, throughout the whole world. You cannot grow in union with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, without growing in union with all your neighbors. And this is the tough part. It’s relatively easy to love Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, isn’t it? Three Persons in One God infinitely perfect and Mary a human person, perfect, free from all sin. It’s easy to love the Triune Persons and Mary, relatively speaking. But it’s not all that easy to love each other all the time, isn’t it? And yet that’s what Jesus calls us to. Jesus literally died for each and every person. And no matter how unattractive a person is in their behavior, Jesus still died for that person. If He loved that person enough to die for that person, then certainly we have to love them, him or her, and especially within the Movement. Satan is violently attacking us, he will always try to cause division in the Movement. But if we are going to be examples - and we are called to that, to be examples to the whole Church and the whole world of what it’s going to be like in the new era, when we all exist in such great loving union with each other in Christ. We are the forerunners of that. We’re helping to prepare the way for that for the whole Church, for the whole world. Not only us, but we have been given a special mission for that. So we have to be united in love with each other, if we have differences, we work them out in love and in peace. We work them out in love and in peace. In one of the Blue Books, Jesus says, "The glass is either half-empty or it’s half-full." I look at my neighbor, whether he or she is in the Movement or outside of it. I can either look at the half-empty part of the glass or the half-full part. I can either look at that person’s faults and concentrate on them, or I can concentrate on the great goodness which is inherently theirs. If they are in the state of sanctifying grace, their soul is magnificently beautiful, despite the blemishes of their failings of their sins. When I look at a person, do I look at the half-empty part or the half-full part?
Everyday I ask you to pray for a growing unity in the Movement. What Our Lord has allowed us to accomplish so far in less than three years is just miraculous, I think it’s just miraculous. The sign becomes ever and ever greater that He started this Movement, not me. I was just the instrument which He chose to head it up. He has given me so many beautiful people to help me do the Movement and that includes all of you. He has given you so many beautiful companions in the Movement. Let us concentrate on that part of it. This is the only way we’re going to be models to the rest of the Church and the world, of the profound union that Our Lord calls us to, not only with Himself, but with each other.
Strength for all this, day after day, it’s not easy to live this way, is it? But as I said in my homily, the great strength we have for that is the Eucharist. The power of the Eucharist is much greater than your faults or my faults or the faults of others in the Movement that surround you, or the faults of others in your parish, or the rest of the Church and the world. He can give you the strength to arise above your own faults and the faults of others around you, and march forward in the most positive way towards this great new era. Oh what a gift the Eucharist is.
St. Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, who gave us such beautiful writings on the Eucharist, in one of his writings on the Eucharist he says:
"It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him and cripple the effects of His love. This world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order to deter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus. It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent. And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle." (That is if we give in to Jesus’ desire to possess us in the Eucharist.) "And yet God is all love. This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: "Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth, and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire." 1
1St. Peter Eymard, "The Most Blessed Sacrament Is Not Loved!," as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardon, S.J., ed.; Ignatius Press, p. 384.
Union amongst ourselves through our union with Jesus and Mary and Father and Holy Spirit. Each of you is so precious to Jesus. He has given each of you a very, very, very special gift, precious gift, in calling you to be involved in this Movement. Very early on in the Movement, it was July 31st of 1994, on the Feast of St. Ignatius, He often gives me very important messages on key feasts, and the Feast of St. Ignatius is a feast for Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. And He told me in that message that He would give great, great, great graces to those who join the Movement, and hope I’m sure, all of you who have been in the Movement have experienced those great graces. In appreciation for the great graces Jesus has given you in the Movement, I ask you, with great joy and a great sense of responsibility and a great sense of privilege, to do what you can to implement the ministries of the Movement. No one else can do your role, can carry out your part. You are preciously unique, no one exists like you now, no one ever has, no one ever will. It’s you alone who can give Jesus the opportunity to do what He wants through your humanity to help spread the Movement. To the extent that you answer Jesus and give yourselves to Him, and work as time and energy permits, as your other duties permit to help spread the ministries, to that extent you give Him an opportunity which no one else can give Him, and to the extent that you hold back, to this extent He loses this opportunity which no one else can give Him.
A precious Savior who has done so much to each of us. Certainly He deserves our full loving response. As I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"
end of February 13, 1997 talk by Fr. Carter
Rosaries
from the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary
This rosary was received on Thursday, February the 13th, 1997 at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording. This live recording can be obtained by writing Shepherds of Christ Publications. All of these meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging at the Pillar
The Crowning With Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
Jesus Dies on the Cross
Notes:
1. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 3, Shepherds of Christ Publications
p. 122.
2. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 2, Shepherds of
Christ Publications p. 159.
3. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
4. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
5. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
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Messenger:
This rosary recorded live is
available on disc and tape.
Also most of Fr. Carter's talk is on
the Mary's message tape
that plays often on the
internet this too is
available on tape and disc.
Jesus speaks:
Oh My people, I gave My life for
you, I love you so much
you fight because you do not
want to obey God's will
LIFE IS SO SHORT HERE
From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
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Jesus speaks: My people
YOU DEAL WITH GOD
I AM DELIVERING
MESSAGES TO YOUR
TROUBLED EARTH
Here is your proof
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Jesus speaks:
You ignore Me
Messenger: December 20, 1993
I was awakened with strong knocking.
Lights were in the room
I heard angels will read the
message . . .
Here is what Jesus said to me
I delivered the message at Our Lady
of the Holy Spirit Center over 9 years ago
and they ignored it and said it
was too strong.
GOD TALKS TO THE WHOLE EARTH.
We must see all of time from Adam and
Eve on
Angels Will Read the Message
December 20, 1993 - 2:40 a.m.
Jesus speaks: Who will read the message? Angels will read the message. I will be by their side. I want the messages out. I want them out, I tell you. I want My people to hear all I am telling you. I want, not a few, but all to hear these words. They are private revelations given by Me to My people. The souls are, oh, so hungry for this one. They need to get these messages.
I am one crying in the desert. Make ready the way of the Lord. Prepare ye a path for the Master. He comes as a child in a stable. His people are asleep. Where are they and what are they doing with their busy lives? The angels will read the messages. They will rock the heavens and all will know My love and My might. From the housetops, shout this. Proclaim, "The day of the Lord is approaching. Make ready a path for Him." Will you comply with this demand to deliver a message to My people?
Time, child, is so short. You must ready all with My words of love. They are half asleep and dazed. They walk this earth with blinders on their eyes. My day will rock them off their rockers and they will know it is I with Whom they deal. No mistake will be made as to what is happening. All will see My power and My might. From the heavens shall come a sign and all will know from whence it comes. And the days that follow will be days to prepare men's hearts for My coming. I will not come unannounced. I will come with My power and My might and you will know what you will behold. Men will turn their hearts to Me with these messages. Get them out, I tell you, for their need is very great. I am patient and yet I am demanding. Ready yourself for this day of the Lord. I come as a baby into your midst, the angels sing, the choirs of heaven rejoice and you will know soon that I am very close to you all. Indeed you will know!
What awaits those in their feeble hearts! They run after such useless things when I, God, am talking in these letters. They think their world is their end. What an awakening they will have-a wide awakening!
I knock to make ready for My coming. You hear Me knock on your door in the night. Make ready this path so My people will read these letters of love. I am mighty and worthy of such praise. My people must realize My love in My intense might. What sign do you need? Do you think these messages were for your ears alone? Such power and wisdom in Rita's purse? This is not the idea. They are for all! My ease goes with you in all your undertakings to get these messages out.
Slow, too slow, I tell you. Shout My message from the housetops, that I am Lord and I am coming in your midst as a baby, but, with such might! My time is at hand. You tarry too long, My little ones. Time you do not have. This world is crazy! People are so busy at the malls. Oh, what foolish ones. I come as a baby into your midst. This is My birthday and whom do you worship? You worship idols! It is all such a sick world. Make ready My path, My little ones. Time is so short and you must not tarry any longer for into your hands I place My words for the world. They are mighty, little ones. Read them! What do you do with these words? Do you want proof? Look at Me hanging on the cross. It is out of this love of you I died a brutal death! Do you think I would not go to this extent to save the souls of My loved ones? Why would I come to this earth, give My life for all My beautiful creatures, and then, at this stage of the game, not send some mighty medicine to cure My sick little ones? You possess the mighty medicine. I mixed it with such love and I hand-deliver each message to shake My people to My love. The heavens will rock and the Son of Man will appear on a cloud and the glory of the Lord will be shown on high!
Get busy, you little people. The angels declare My words are given here. This is My gift to My people-distinct, clear letters proclaiming My love. Are you listening? Do you think I would not try everything to save My beloved ones?
Oh, I will go to any extent to save these little ones, so ornery and so stupid in their ways, so sinful in this evil world, but so precious to Me. I will come in My glory and I want every last soul.
I am God. Why would I not speak to you? I wait for you. I wait, I wait, but you are all so blind and dense. What you do is so silly. Your ways here have become sick and your hearts have become hard. But shout it from the housetops! I loved you to My death! I love you all in your sickness. I want you united under the mantle of My mother, praying and honoring God.
America, turn yourselves around before it is too late. Come and heed My harkening. Come, come, My children. Time is so short and a lot of mending must be done in your hearts. You have hardened them and now they must come back to life. Only I can give you this life in your hearts.
Heed My words here. I am gentle and kind in heart. My heart is a heart of love. I have hand-delivered these messages to My people and you are My delivery boys. Get them going, little ones. You tarry too much.
My gift to My people is My love this Christmas. I am showering all at this Center with grace this season. The devotion there pleases Me, but more must flock and they will be changed from hardened hearts to hearts for God. I am God, little ones. I came and I died a brutal death. I am calling to you all to deliver this now. Make this your top priority so they will hear My message of love and know the love I have for them. Do not tarry. Do this today, little ones.
end of December 20, 1993
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Messenger: Father Carter took this message very seriously.
I am the Good Shepherd, these are My prayers, the prayers I give to help renew the Church and the world, all prayer chapters are asked to include these prayers (found in the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual). As My Apostles and Shepherds I ask you to encourage all existing Chapters to try to encourage all existing prayer groups to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Encourage all Churches to pray these prayers. It is most urgent that the people of this earth concur with the Father's wishes to begin Prayer Chapters. This is an urgent request from the Good Shepherd. The flock will become one when they have given their hearts to Jesus and Mary. Encourage all priests to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Your world will be lighted with great light as the people of this earth pray these prayers.
My promise is this to you My beloved earth: When you give your heart to Me and spread the devotion to My Sacred Heart, I will write your name In My Heart. I promise to give the greatest graces when you pray these prayers for renewal of the Church and the world and take all who pray them deeply into My Heart. The prayers I give will bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. I am Jesus Christ, this is My message of January 22, 1998, Please circulate this message to your world. I am the Good Shepherd, I know Mine and Mine know Me and they follow Me. Grace My Shepherds, I will give you the greatest graces for spreading these words to this earth and to your Church. I love you, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, it is the Plan of the Father that Prayer Chapters are begun immediately and the Priestly Newsletter is given to all priests. The Voice of the Good Shepherd speaks through it.
end of January 22, 1998
July 4, 1996
This message was received before a live statue of the Sorrowful Mother after Communion.
Message from Jesus: "Peace will abound when nations, churches, families and individuals are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
"Fr. Carter is a pillar of light to the dark world. This is the explanation of the photo. It is through him, I will turn darkness to light. Circulate this message with the picture. Encourage all to consecrate their hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to join the Shepherds of Christ Chapters, and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement to pray for your Church and your world. This is My Movement for renewal of the Church and the world, based in consecration, joining your every act to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying the rosary, and making reparation to Our Hearts, especially on First Fridays and First Saturdays. It is through your prayers and sacrifices many souls will be helped to be saved. Grace will flow from those whose hearts are consecrated to Our Hearts and the fire of My Love will light up this darkened world."
As you look at the picture, you see Fr. Carter's arm and hand on your left. This picture of Fr. Carter was taken July 2, 1996 at the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ Meeting at Tom Arlinghaus' Farm.end of July 4, 1996 message
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Messenger:
We play the tape of Fr. Carter daily on the internet
at 6:20 doing the prayers
prayer chapter's all over unite
with us. This was a message from
Jesus praying for the priests, the
Church and the world.
Mysteries of Light for Children
especially those about to make
their first communion
Sing Rosary Song
Between decades refrain from Song from Jesus
Baptism of Jesus
1. Jesus calls us his special soldiers.
2. Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan.
3. Jesus gives us a special sharing
in His life at baptism.4. We are called at baptism to go
out and spread the good news.5. We are little apostles in this world.
6. Jesus wants us to love Him.
7. In loving Jesus we act lovingly to others.
8. Jesus wants us to be good.
9. When we are good like Jesus
wants us to be, others see
that goodness in us.10. We shine like lights to others.
Marriage at Cana
1. Jesus performed a miracle at Cana.
2. He changed water into wine.
3. Mary His Mother was there.
4. Mary is our Mother.
5. When we ask Mary to ask God for
special favors, she can help
us if we pray through
her powerful intercession.6. When we receive the Holy Eucharist
we are deeply united to Jesus.7. Jesus is the bridegroom of our soul.
8. Jesus wants little boys and
little girls who make their
first communion to realize
how specially gifted we are
to receive Jesus.9. Little girls often wear white
and a little veil to go to
their first communion.10. Jesus loves us so much He gives
Himself to us in the Eucharist.
This is such a gift.
1. Jesus remains in the Eucharist to beThe Kingdom of God
with us with His burning love for us.2. Jesus remains with us this day in the Eucharist.
3. Jesus is the Son of God.
4. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
5. Jesus wants us to build up
His Kingdom here below.6. Jesus is truly present in His
Divinity and Humanity in
the Eucharist.7. He wants us to love Him so much.
8. He wants us to love our brothers
all over the world and pray
for them.9. Jesus wants us to love
Him and others and ourselves.10. When we pray for others and
ourselves to do what
God wants, with much
love, we help build
the Kingdom of God.
Transfiguration
1. John 15: 12-13
This is my commandment:
love one another,
as I have loved you.
No one can have greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends.2. John 15: 17
My command to you
is to love one another.3. John 15: 5-6
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
is thrown away like a branch
—and withers;
these branches are collected
and thrown on the fire
and are burnt.4. Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist.
5. This is a special love union with God.
6. Matthew 17:2-3
There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as dazzling as light. And suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him.
7. Matthew 17:5
He was still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud there came a voice which said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’
8. Matthew 18:1-5
At this time the disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ So he called a little child to him whom he set among them. Then he said, ‘In truth I tell you, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven.
On leading others astray
‘Anyone who welcomes one little child like this in my name welcomes me.
9. We must pray for the world.
10. Matthew 18:10
‘See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven.
1. Matthew 26:20The Last Supper
When evening came he was at table with the Twelve.
2. Matthew 26:26
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’
3. Matthew 26:27-28
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
4. The priest has the power to change
bread and wine into the Body and
Blood of Jesus.5. The Mass is so important.
6. The priest is so important.
7. The Church is the bride of Christ.
8. Jesus wants us to love Him so
much and give Him
special love in the Eucharist.9. Jesus wants us to pray deeply
at Mass, watching the Mass.pictures Cathy drew of Fr. Mike
10. Jesus wants us to think about
Him at Mass and after
communion and tell
Him how much we
love Him.
The Sign of the Cross
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
We begin asking God to forgive our sins.
The Opening Prayer
The First Reading
The Gospel
The Offering of the Bread
The Offering of the Wine
The Washing of the Hands
The Holy Holy
The Raising of the Consecrated Host
The Raising of the Precious Blood
Through Him, With Him and In Him
The Our Father
The Breaking of the Bread
The Lamb of God
Communion
Communion
The Blessing
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